Although the Gauteng Education Department said it had not yet received any reports of matric pupils failing to write their exams as a result of protest action by taxi operators, it would consider such cases.
“We will consider such applications on a case by case basis, but so far we have not received any reports that anyone has not written the exam because of the strike,” the education department’s spokesperson Phumla Sekhonyane said.
Sekhonyane dismissed reports that matric pupils who failed to write their exams on 17 November due the taxi strike would have to write supplementary exams next year.
Earlier, the education department expressed concern that more than 1 000 matrics who were due to write history and agricultural science examinations on 17 November would be affected by the taxi strike. The department had urged parents to make alternative arrangements to get their children to school.
The strike was by taxi operators affiliated to the United Taxi Associations Front. The operators marched to the Gauteng Department of Transport in the Johannesburg CBD over the issuing of operating licences and e-toll exemptions among other grievances.
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